I'm a strongly pro-choice pede. Also strongly anti-Planned Parenthood, as it's a leftist political activism group -- providing abortion and contraceptive services is just a sideline that the leadership doesn't really care about.

Lives do not belong to the state, and while the history of forced abortion in China gets a lot of attention from anti-abortion activists, the history of forced pregnancy and childbearing is equally horrific, with Soviet-era Romania being one of the most recent examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770 Needless to say, virtually everything people could possibly enjoy in life had already been taken away from them, so sex was the only thing left. Government forcing people to breed in order to further government's otherwise unsustainable purposes is pure evil -- it's basically forced breeding of slaves.

The Soviet Union didn't ban abortion, but tried to prop up its dwindling birth rate by making contraceptives unavailable. The result was a shockingly high abortion rate, with some studies finding that the average Soviet woman had had 10 or more abortions. That's how badly women living under a totalitarian government wanted not to have babies who would have to live the same kind of lives. Ultimately, the ready availability of abortion played a big part in the economic-demographic collapse of the Soviet Union, restoring a reasonable degree of freedom to the entire population.

I'm a strongly pro-choice pede. Also strongly anti-Planned Parenthood, as it's a leftist political activism group -- providing abortion and contraceptive services is just a sideline that the leadership doesn't really care about.

Lives do not belong to the state, and while the history of forced abortion in China gets a lot of attention from anti-abortion activists, the history of forced pregnancy and childbearing is equally horrific, with Soviet-era Romania being one of the most recent examples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770 Needless to say, virtually everything people could possibly enjoy in life had already been taken away from them, so sex was the only thing life. Government forcing people to breed in order to further government's otherwise unsustainable purposes is pure evil -- it's basically forced breeding of slaves.

The Soviet Union didn't ban abortion, but tried to prop up its dwindling birth rate by making contraceptives unavailable. The result was a shockingly high abortion rate, with some studies finding that the average Soviet woman had had 10 or more abortions. That's how badly women living under a totalitarian government wanted not to have babies who would have to live the same kind of lives. Ultimately, the ready availability of abortion played a big part in the economic-demographic collapse of the Soviet Union, restoring a reasonable degree of freedom to the entire population.